Posted on 09/22/2012 4:41:21 AM PDT by SMGFan
I remember going to look at it and there was a big dent in the passenger side quarter panel. I remember saying to him, “I can't believe you would try and rip off your Best Friend's Brother” (me).
Then there were the other two cars that I missed out on, a 70 Chevelle SS 396 that my buddy wanted the ridiculously high price of $2750 back in the mid 70’s and the one I still have nightmares about, a 1969 Shelby Mustang GT350 H that I almost bought way back in 1974.
The guy who owned it did some business with my Father. My Dad calls me up and says this guy has the Car and he wants to know if I'm interested in buying it. I call the guy up and tell him I will come by the next morning after work (I worked Mids back then). He says OK, so after work I call him on the way to the Bank to get the $2000, yes $2000...
The guy says, sorry, he sold it to someone else the night before because the guy had the Cash. I think I would be in Prison today if I went over there and he told me in person that he sold it out from under me. I never talked to the guy again. 40 plus years later and it still pisses me off. My Wife tells me to let it go every time it comes up in conversation, like when I'm watching the Auto Auctions on Velocity Channel and Speed Channel.
That car would be my first Lotto Car. They only go for $125,000 nowadays. Or I raid my Retirement Account and get one before the Wife files for Divorce.
If I could get my hands on the Cobra I built for Dennis
Wilson of the Beach Boys to go Drag Racing I would better than wealthy now!!!
When Dennis went off on drugs and traded it in to Hollywood Sport Car for a motorcycle I could have bought it for next to nothing.
We should rename this Thread “If I knew then what I know now”. LOL
We could also use that title to describe the Obama Reelection Campaign.
After we blew off thr Rodreguize’s at the Guadahara State Fair in 58 and sold the Corvette to them for $7,800, twice the price of a new one they offered me $800 a month in a bank of my choice and all living and traveling expenses around the world to work on their race cars, like a dumnmnie I had to come home and get married instead!
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